Description

Our Challenge Ropes Course is designed to elicit a sense of adventure, suspense and fun through a variety of experiential activities in the adventure education model. Participants will be encouraged to go beyond their perceived boundaries within a supportive group environment as they encounter a merging of intellectual, social, physical, and emotional types of learning.

Challenge Ropes Course

The ropes course at Saint Joseph College is a series of trees and telephone poles connected by ropes, logs and cables to provide a progression of physical, mental and emotional challenges that an adventure group confronts as a team. Adventurers may choose to be anywhere between two and 40 feet above the ground on our ropes course. We have 13 low elements, which require no safety equipment other than the care of your group members. We have nine high elements, which require the participants to wear safety gear and be attached to a belay system.

4 Goals of Adventure Education

• Improve self-concept
• Increase awareness and appreciation of others
• Increase appreciation of nature
• Increase agility, coordination and fitness

Team-Building Activities

• Ice breakers
• De-inhibitizers
• Communication-building activities
• Trust-building activities
• Personal safety and spotting
• Group problem-solving initiatives
• Non-traditional games
• Climbing equipment and knots
• Low-challenge course elements
• High-challenge course elements

Saint Joseph College
Ropes Course Policies

• There is a six participant minimum for all user groups.
• For safety concerns, there is a two facilitator minimum for each user group.
• If only games and group initiatives are to be used, the student to teacher ratio can go as high as 10:1.
• If any low or high elements are to be used during the program, the student to teacher ratio must be no higher than 6:1.
• Please contact for further information and Corporate or Non-Profit Group pricing.

For further information about The Gengras Center / Saint Joseph College Adventure Education Program,
please contact:
Mike Gessford at mgessford@sjc.edu (860)-231-5749
or Justin McGlamery at jmcglamery@sjc.edu (860)-231-5790